Thank you, I do bang on about it a bit, but it was really scary and has affected me quite deeply. She had a telephone appointment for a problem that often causes anaemia, but the doctor forgot to order a blood test, by the time she finally managed to get one 8 weeks later, her blood count was just above the level where people drop dead. She was told she could have a fatal heart attack at any moment. normally she would have been blued and twoed to hospital for a blood transfussion. Instead she was just given an industrial dose of iron, the pharmacist actually queried the does it was so large, and was told to take herself to A&E if she felt ill or thought she might be having a heart attack! She is OK now, but living alone and working from home, we like to (discretely) keep an eye on her.